The GCOS Newsletter

January 2005

Officers

*President:*	*Steve Helbling*	*Treasurer:*	*Dana White*
*Vice-president :*	*Toni Doty*	*Program director:*	*Larry Sanford*
*Secretary:*	*Jeanne Sanders*	*Members-at-large:*	*Jim France & Roni Adkins*

The next meeting of the Greater Cincinnati Orchid Society will be on Tuesday, January 4, 2005.

Note that this is the first Tuesday of the month. The meeting will be held at the Civic Garden Center on Reading

Road across from Bethesda Hospital. The meeting is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.

There will be time to socialize from 7:00 to 7:30.

Program

This month’s program will be the presented by Larry Sanford on

“DNA Reclassifications: Short Term Madness/ Long Term Reality”.

Refreshments by Sally Heckscher and Katherine Miller.

Nearby Shows/Events

January 22	Saturday-One day Van Trip 9am-7pm	Hilltop Orchids
February 12	Saturday- Open greenhouse- 1-4pm
February 19-20	Miami Valley OS, Dayton, OH	Cox Arboretum
March 19-20	Greater Cincinnati OS ,	Krohn Conservatory
April 2-3	Hoosier OS,	Indianapolis, Glendale Mall
April 3	Potting Bee	Krohn Conservatory
April 16-17	Central KY OS,	Lexington
April 20-25	MAOC, Bloomington, MN
April 30	Saturday-Open greenhouse 1-4pm	Rick & Alexa paphiopedilums
April 30-May 1	Three Rivers OS, Ft. Wayne, IN
April 21-22	Kentucky OS,
July 23	Van trip New Vision Orchids	Russ Vernon
August 12	1th Annual Ohio Valley Seminar, CGC, Cinci,OH ‘Orchids of Panama” Bill Goldner/ Woodstream Orchids
.September 20	Indiana OS Indianapolis, IN
October 22-23	MAOC	Kings Island Resort, Kings Mills OH,

Next Meetings * Speaker brings plants for sale. No

silent auction plant.

January 4, 2005	Larry Sanford - “DNA Reclassifications: Short Term Madness/ Long Term Reality”
February 4, 2005	Pat June - “Sophronitis”
March 1, 2005	Simulated AOS Judging
April 5, 2005	Jan Yates - (“To be announced”)
May 3, 2005	Leon Glictenstein* - ‘Costa Rican Orchid Fantasy”
June 7, 2005	7 pm Panel ”Summering Out Your Plants” 7:30pm Kristen Mason (To be announced)
September 6, 2005	730pm Alexa Noel - “Tolumnias” 7PM Panel”Bringing in your Plants”
October 7, 2005	Steve Benjamin* - (“To be announced”)
November 1, 2005	Russ Vernon* - ( To be announced”)

Plant Judging

AOS Judging of plants is done at the shows listed below under Nearby Shows as well as at the regularly scheduled judging sessions listed immediately below. These sessions begin at 1:00 p.m. at the Civic Garden Center. You are welcome to bring a plant to be judged or just to observe the judging. Be a little early; plant registration is from Noon to 1:00 p.m.

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Next Meetings * Speaker brings plants for sale. No

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